Imagine being a visitor to an excavated ancient Byzantine church in Greece. The broken pieces of ancient stones lie scattered on the floor, and mosaics that have long been lost…
The 20th century redefined architecture in reaction to industrialisation, speedy urbanisation, and evolving social needs. Moving away from ornamentation and historic revival styles, architects embraced Modernism, prioritising function, simple geometry,…
For centuries, the fundamentals of architecture have been stability; buildings are expected to stand upright, offer clear visuals and communicate a sense of logical order through balance, symmetry and predictable…
In today’s period of rapid urbanisation, city landscapes are constantly changing to meet people’s growing needs. When a building no longer serves its original purpose, demolition is often the default…
People have seen many palaces, museum, heritage from the perspective of a perceived. Have people ever thought how does it feel as an user of the heritage? How does it…
Bandra, alias Queen of Suburbs, is easily the heartthrob of Mumbaikars, and for good reason: it sits along the coastline and seamlessly blends modern lifestyle and popular culture. But beyond…
The Building with Two Birth Dates The most revealing feature of the Bofill Foundation HQ, Barcelona, Spain, is not its exposed brick or restored timber, but the uncertainty held within…
Resorts, ski towns, boarding schools, hospitals and national-park gateways face a recruiting problem that extends beyond the workplace. The people they need cannot find somewhere to live within an hour…
Imagine standing inside a building that was completed before your country existed in its present form. The walls have witnessed generations being born, working, worshipping, leaving and returning. The floor…
Throughout much of architectural history, the façade was more than just a layer of images painted onto a structure. The façade was an environmental screen carefully conceived by the architect.…
In the high latitudes of the Nordic world, the sun’s rays seldom reach, casting the land into a perpetual twilight. Here, the idea of a shelter is more than just…
In 1972, a housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri was demolished with controlled explosives. Pruit-Igoe, designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1950s and built with the full architectural confidence…